Where: Sofia, Madagascar (14.4° S, 48.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° S, 26.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Oolite Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• "Lower Oolite" (Newton 1895)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. B. Newton. 1895. On a collection of fossils from Madagascar obtained by the Rev. R. Baron. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 51:72-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199161: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 23.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
Corbula grandidieri n. sp., Corbula pectinata
Corbula grandidieri n. sp. Newton 1895 clam
Corbula pectinata Sowerby 1840 clam | |
Pseudotrapezium depressum n. sp., Pseudotrapezium ventricosum n. sp., Pseudotrapezium elongatum n. sp.
Pseudotrapezium depressum n. sp. Newton 1895 clam
Pseudotrapezium ventricosum n. sp. Newton 1895 clam
Pseudotrapezium elongatum n. sp. Newton 1895 clam | |